Sufficiently strong electric fields can cause atoms to

Chapter 21, Problem 21DQ

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Sufficiently strong electric fields can cause atoms to become positively ionized—that is, to lose one or more electrons. Explain how this can happen. What determines how strong the field must be to make this happen?

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